Joseph Joubert (moralist)
Joseph Joubert (born May 7, 1754 in Montignac , Périgord , † May 4, 1824 in Paris ) was a French moralist and essayist .
Life
Joubert studied in Toulouse jurisprudence , then classical studies . He attended a religious college in Toulouse from the age of 14 , where he later taught himself until 1776. In 1778 he went to Paris , where he met Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot and later became friends with the young writer and diplomat François-René de Chateaubriand .
He lived alternately with his friends in Paris and withdrawn in the country in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne . Joubert never published anything in his life, but wrote a great many letters and wrote down on slips of paper and in small notebooks thoughts about human nature, literature and other subjects; in a concise, often aphoristic form. After his death, his widow entrusted these notes to Chateaubriand, who in 1838 published a selection under the title Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert ( Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert ). More complete editions followed: Pensées, essais et maximes, published in French in 1842, in German by Franz Pocci in Munich in 1851. His correspondence was also published.
Joubert's works have been translated many times, into English by Paul Auster, among others .
literature
- Fritz Schalk , ed. And transl .: French moralists. Vol. 2: Galiani, Prince of Ligne , Joubert. No. 45. Dieterich Collection , 22. – 4. new. Wiesbaden undated & Leipzig 1962
- dsb. as ed. and transl., The French Moralists. , Vol. 2: Galiani , Rivarol , Joubert, Jouffroy . dtv , Munich 1984, ISBN 3423060271
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Joubert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joseph Joubert's works and documents at the French National Library
notes
- ↑ the previous 3rd edition was also published in both places in 1949; the 1st & 2nd ed. 1940 (called New Series) & 1946 partly still with a preface by Karl Vossler and with an article under the title "Die ... etc." The 2nd edition: had part 1 & 2 in one volume = Dieterich, Leipzig 1980 = 5th edition of the total edition; also an edition by Schünemann, Bremen 1962/1963 in 2 volumes and additionally with Jouffroy (like dtv, 1984) = differently bound in 1 volume ONLY for Switzerland by Verlag Schibli-Doppler, Birsfelden , o. J. (1976); this dating after Albert Raffelt, see web link in Pensées
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joubert, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French moralist and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montignac , Périgord |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1824 |
| Place of death | Paris |